Sexual Division of Labor, Warfare, and Money

Why is this complex? The basic design here (and in the industrial sexual division of labor) is least effort and energy efficient. Complexity comes in with the boundary conditions between different communities, especially with ethnic differences, where males at the spatially peripheral tasks of each community are likely to engage in conflict, and with the factors that lead to greater male contributions to subsistence. See Yaneer Bar-Yam & co. on ethnic violence.

Wealth and Property

As Hernando de Soto notes, however, wealth assets transferred through inheritance are not recognized as property by national governments. The feudal system (Europe, Japan) has no property rights for serfs. The Habsburg Empire, in about 1510, assigned property rights to Austrians (not all their dependencies) that elevated serfs to eusymptotic renters (return the property the inheritance is degraded), and created a capitalist economy. Douglas MacArthur in 1946 converted feudal Japan to a capitalist economy by locating rights to land from the feudal rights documented in the Endo period of the 16th century, and created individual and family rights in these lands and their houses as property. South Korea followed suite. So has China after Mao (the Deng reforms). The Peruvian movement that de Soto & company organized rights assigned by the land reformers to property rights by creating legal ownership documents to them. Thomas Jefferson say that the establishment of democracy and rule of law in post-colonial America required property as its foundation. Hispanic California

Five steps to property leading to democracy:

Awareness

Diagnosis

Reform design (e.g., MacArthur, Austrian euphemtosis)

Implementation

Capital formation = motivation for good government, under rule of law.